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Caralluma adscendens var. fimbriata
C. adscendens has been eaten in rural India for centuries, raw, as a vegetable with spices, or preserved in chutneys and pickles, and is often found as a roadside shrub or boundary marker. It has been used as a portable food and thirst quencher for hunting. Tribesmen on a day's hunt will often only pack some Caralluma fimbriata to sustain themselves and it is commonly known as "famine food" in India
Spotted on Jun 19, 2015
Submitted on Jul 10, 2015
2 Comments
Thank you Emilie for the help and I got the id. Thank you Stacy, Jopy, Deepti, Sukanya, Marta and Linda for the likes.
Pretty little flower. No doubt in the Apocynaceae family, Asclepiadoideae. It looks a lot like Rhytidocaulon, but I'm not sure this genus exists in India.
Here's a lead that might help you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhytidocau...